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Cardinal Raymond Burke participates in a panel that convened on the eve of the Synod on Synodality, Oct. 3. (photo: Daniel Ibañez / EWTN News)

By Solène Tadié, EWTN News, October 5, 2023

Solène Tadié is the Europe Correspondent for the National Catholic Register. She is French-Swiss and grew up in Paris. After graduating from Roma III University with a degree in journalism, she began reporting on Rome and the Vatican for Aleteia.

 

The cardinal spoke out at a conference organized in Rome on Oct. 3.

Cardinal Raymond Burke has spoken out on the reactions raised by the dubia he and four other cardinals submitted to Pope Francis on the eve of the opening of the plenary assembly of the Synod on Synodality, asserting that the move was aimed neither at the Pope’s person nor his agenda, but merely at safeguarding the Church’s perennial doctrine.

The cardinal was speaking at a conference organized in Rome on Oct. 3 by the Italian Catholic newspaper Nuova Bussola Quotidiana on the theme “The Synodal Babel,” designed to discuss the main points of contention raised by the synod, which opened at the Vatican on Oct. 4.

The work of this first session convened by the Pope, titled “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission,” will run until Oct. 29. A second session of the Synod on Synodality is expected in October 2024 to “continue discernment.” ….

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